Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1958, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Lade. One of the men was waving a red handkerchief attachedto a paddle. Five minutes later the life-boat Mabel E. Holland-was launched in a choppy sea. There was a moderate south-westerly wind and it was high water. The life-boat went to the position and found that the dinghy had sunk and the two men were in the water.

They were rescued and landed at Lade.

The life-boat reached her station at 6.20 One of the men rescued made a donation to the Institution's funds.

Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £17 8s..